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German retail chain faces mutiny from Russian employees
Local OBI employees tried to take over the business from within in an open rebellion The Russian management of German DIY retailer OBI have rebelled against the parent company over its decision to leave the country, business daily Vedomosti reported on Sunday. The majority shareholder of the chain - the German holding OBI GmbH - announced that it was shutting up shop in Russia on March 8, joining hundreds of other foreign companies that decided to pull out amid Western sanctions. According to Vedomosti, the decision provoked an open confrontation between the local management of the chain and the parent company.
https://www.sott.net/article/466632-German-retail-chain-faces-mutiny-from-Russian-employees

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The end for electric cars? VW develops new hydrogen technology: '2,000 Km on a single tank of fuel'!
VW may have developed a major hydrogen breakthrough...cars could travel 2000 km on a single tank of fuel. VW often rails against hydrogen cars, but the German automaker is reported to have filed a patent that could mean a major breakthrough for hydrogen powered vehicles, reports Patrick Freiwa of the German Kreiszeitung here. Though the latest trend has been electric cars, these have also a number of technical drawbacks like range, cost, mining and weight. Moreover there is also the problem of how to dispose of millions of tons of batteries at the end of their lives.
https://www.sott.net/article/466633-The-end-for-electric-cars-VW-develops-new-hydrogen-technology-2000-Km-on-a-single-tank-of-fuel

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Spectacular volcanic eruption of Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
The Geological Survey of Colombia reported that the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted around 5 pm on April 11. A column of ash, gases and steam reached a height of 3300 meters. A huge column of ash was visible from several cities in the center of the country, such as Manizales, Ibague and others. The locals were frightened by this impressive phenomenon, which can be very dangerous.
https://www.sott.net/article/466634-Spectacular-volcanic-eruption-of-Nevado-del-Ruiz-Colombia

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South Lake Tahoe drops to a bone-chilling 9 degrees, over a foot off snow
A winter-like cold front swept across the Sierra Nevada on Monday, delivering a mass of cold air to the region. On Tuesday morning, temperatures were downright freezing. In the Tahoe area, South Lake Tahoe dropped to 9 degrees and Truckee 10 degrees, the National Weather Service said. The storm dropped several inches of snow across the basin and higher elevations got more than a foot. More snow is on the way as early as Wednesday night and into Thursday.
https://www.sott.net/article/466635-South-Lake-Tahoe-drops-to-a-bone-chilling-9-degrees-over-a-foot-off-snow

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Rallying round the false flags
Another day, another provocation, and Western leaders are frothing at the mouth with denunciations of Russian "barbarity". U.S. President Joe Biden signs off on more weapons to Ukraine while European counterparts slap more economic warfare sanctions on Russia. Just when the Western media had saturated "reports" of Russian troops executing civilians and leaving their bodies to rot on the streets of Bucha, then we read of more horror from accusations that Russian forces fired a missile at a train station in Kramatorsk killing over 50 people, including women and children. Last week the Western media were telling us about Russian forces bombing a theatre in Mariupol and killing people sheltering in the basement. The week before it was an alleged Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in the same city. The onslaught of the reports of these alleged atrocities is itself telling. There is hardly any time for the Western public to think critically about the reports and whether they are...
https://www.sott.net/article/466636-Rallying-round-the-false-flags

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Anti-Russian sanctions compromise ammonia storage Latvia
The Latvian port city of Ventspils may soon encounter difficulty safely storing some 40,000 tons of liquid ammonia, city council chairman Janis Vitolins told LETA news agency on Sunday. The hazardous material is owned by Ventamonjak, the company that runs the liquid ammonia terminal located at the local port. The terminal, which has multiple holding tanks to store ammonia, is the largest facility of its kind in the Baltic Sea region. Ventamonjak is controlled by Uralchem Freight Limited Cyprus, which is owned by Russian billionaire Dmitry Mazepin. The ownership structure makes the terminal subject to the sanctions affecting Mazepin, the official explained. As a result, Ventamonjak's ability to perform financial transactions is currently restricted.
https://www.sott.net/article/466637-Anti-Russian-sanctions-compromise-ammonia-storage-Latvia

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Russia's war in Ukraine is a watershed. Time for America to lose its hubris and get real
During his recent speech in Warsaw, President Biden said that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," only to clarify a few days later that he was merely expressing outrage, not announcing a new U.S. policy aimed at toppling Russia's leader. The episode, interpreted by many as a dangerous gaffe, underscored the tension in U.S. foreign policy between idealism and realism. Mr. Putin's invasion of Ukraine should provoke moral outrage in all of us, and, at least in principle, it warrants his removal from office. But Mr. Putin could well remain the leader of a major power into the next decade, and Washington will need to deal with him. This friction between lofty goals and realpolitik is nothing new. The United States has since the founding era been an idealist power operating in a realist world — and has on balance succeeded in bending the arc of history toward justice. But geopolitical exigency at times takes precedence over ideals, with America playing power politics when it needs...
https://www.sott.net/article/466638-Russias-war-in-Ukraine-is-a-watershed-Time-for-America-to-lose-its-hubris-and-get-real

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The alliance of MI6, the CIA and the Bandéristes
After having shown that the war in Ukraine was prepared by the Straussians and triggered on February 17 by Kiev's attack on the Donbass, Thierry Meyssan returns to the secret history that links the Anglo-Saxons to the Banderites since the fall of the Third Reich. He sounds the alarm: we have not been able to see the resurgence of Nazi racialism in Ukraine and in the Baltic States for thirty years, nor do we see that many of the Ukrainian civilians we welcome are steeped in Banderites' ideology. We are waiting for Nazi attacks to begin in Western Europe before we wake up. WESTERN SUPPORT FOR NAZISM (1933-1940) The massive support of the United States and its allies for the Ukrainian Banderites against Russia is comparable to the support of the same side in the early days of Hitler's Germany against the USSR. Let us remember that absolutely all Western states without exception believed, at one time or another, that the Nazis were the solution to the economic crisis of 1929. Only they...
https://www.sott.net/article/466639-The-alliance-of-MI6-the-CIA-and-the-Banderistes

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Tucker Carlson: 'Like a pack of wild dogs, Democrats have decided to kill off weak Biden'
Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted that footage of Joe Biden wandering around the White House on his own as the rest of his handlers and Democratic underlings fawn before a visiting Barack Obama is a perfect visualisation of what the future holds. After playing the footage, Carlson pointed out that "no one in Washington thinks the Biden presidency is glorious anymore. They think it's a disaster. Polls show that voters strongly agree. Joe Biden is now the most unpopular person in virtually any room he enters." Carlson described the scene at the White House, noting that "Biden tried to horn in on the conversation swirling around Obama. Everyone involved in that conversation, including Kamala Harris, who supposedly works for Biden, ignored Biden completely. "Biden desperately tried to get Obama's attention. He puts his hand on Obama's shoulder. He even calls him "Barack" like they're friends, but Obama blows him off. He acts like Biden is not even there. Ask yourself if you have ever...
https://www.sott.net/article/466640-Tucker-Carlson-Like-a-pack-of-wild-dogs-Democrats-have-decided-to-kill-off-weak-Biden

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Kushner's PE firm secured $2B from Saudi Arabia despite objections he was too inexperienced to manage money
Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment for his private equity firm from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund last summer, The New York Times reported. Kushner set up Affinity Partners in July following his departure from the White House, where he served as a senior advisor to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. Reports have since detailed how Kushner has traveled the Middle East trying to drum up investment, with mixed success. Though said to have been rebuffed by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in July, The Times reported. However, citing an internal document dated June 30, an internal PIF panel tasked with assessing the feasibility of investment was reluctant to support Kushner's fund, citing his lack of experience. The group also flagged that its background check found that Affinity Partners was "unsatisfactory in all aspects" and that there were "public relations risks" given...
https://www.sott.net/article/466641-Kushners-PE-firm-secured-2B-from-Saudi-Arabia-despite-objections-he-was-too-inexperienced-to-manage-money

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How the Biden administration is aiding and abetting the biggest border fraud in US history
The Biden administration will soon remove the last serious speed bump to an open border, opening the floodgates to mass asylum fraud. America was already weathering the greatest border crisis in recorded history when President Joe Biden's administration announced the last day of the Covid-related public health order Title 42 will be May 23. That's the pandemic containment U.S. Code that, since President Donald Trump invoked it in March 2020, has been used to deny illegal border jumpers access to the American asylum system while bouncing them back to Mexico. Biden started the crisis on Inauguration Day with his first executive orders and by cutting out major exemptions in Title 42 for illegal migrant families and minors. What was left of it posed the last serious speed bump to an unimpeded open border. The Biden government has publicly admitted that something bad will happen at the southwest border: An estimated 12,000 to 18,000 migrant apprehensions a day (versus the...
https://www.sott.net/article/466642-How-the-Biden-administration-is-aiding-and-abetting-the-biggest-border-fraud-in-US-history

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The weapons industry sees the war in Ukraine as a goldmine
Arms companies are exploiting Russia's invasion to push a military spending frenzy. Since the pandemic began in early 2020, the weapons industry has argued that shutdowns and supply chain disruptions have put the ​"defense industrial base" in peril, compromising the national security and military ​"readiness" of the United States. Now, that same industry is using Russia's invasion of Ukraine and NATO's subsequent military buildup to double down on the argument, demanding rapid, public investments in the weapons industry to bolster the capacity of the United States and NATO for ​"deterrence." This new push, showcased by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), shines a light on the ways weapons companies exploit crises to protect current and future profits. The NDIA counts among its members some of the biggest weapons manufacturers in the world, including Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. On March 25, Thomas Low, an NDIA junior fellow, published a piece in National Defense...
https://www.sott.net/article/466643-The-weapons-industry-sees-the-war-in-Ukraine-as-a-goldmine

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BEST OF THE WEB: 16 injured in New York subway shooting, 4 suspicious devices found
Several people have been shot during rush hour in Brooklyn, according to the New York Police Department. Suspicious devices were also reportedly found. At least 10 people were shot at the 36th Street subway station in Sunset Park during rush hour in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning, local media and law enforcement sources have reported. A total of 16 were reported injured. One of the victims was found at 25th Street, the next station on the line, according to WABC. At least four suspicious devices were also reportedly found at the 36th Street station. (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
https://www.sott.net/article/466644-16-injured-in-New-York-subway-shooting-4-suspicious-devices-found

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Twitter transforms into pleasant workplace, after all the angry Leftists quit in protest
Social media platform Twitter experienced an uptick in turnover in the last week ever since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk joined the board of directors. According to sources, enraged leftists are quitting in protest, subsequently creating a pleasant work environment around the office. "Twitter is the best place to work right now," said Kurt Herald, a conservative coder who previously hid in the office basement. "I'm able to express opinions and talk about movies without being called racist and heteronormative. It's surreal." Herald has since taken over the corner office vacated by his multi-colored hair compatriot who he wasn't sure was a man or woman. The FCC has expressed concern over Twitter's staff exodus with some suggesting Russia may be involved. "Twitter may soon become a frightening place where users can say things that offend my sensibilities. That's not a world I want to live in," said FCC official Mx. Krill Talon. Meanwhile, Twitter has invited the remaining employees...
https://www.sott.net/article/466645-Twitter-transforms-into-pleasant-workplace-after-all-the-angry-Leftists-quit-in-protest

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South Lake Tahoe drops to a bone-chilling 9 degrees, over a foot of snow
A winter-like cold front swept across the Sierra Nevada on Monday, delivering a mass of cold air to the region. On Tuesday morning, temperatures were downright freezing. In the Tahoe area, South Lake Tahoe dropped to 9 degrees and Truckee 10 degrees, the National Weather Service said. The storm dropped several inches of snow across the basin and higher elevations got more than a foot. More snow is on the way as early as Wednesday night and into Thursday.
https://www.sott.net/article/466635-South-Lake-Tahoe-drops-to-a-bone-chilling-9-degrees-over-a-foot-of-snow

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Putin outlines priorities to restart economy
Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government on measures for social and economic support of the nation in the face of Western sanctions. The presidential order was published on Monday on the Kremlin website. The Cabinet of Ministers is expected to make a number of amendments to laws to increase the availability of social support measures. So, before April 30, amendments should be made to ensure an increase in the availability of support measures for families with children, whose income has decreased significantly after March 1. The government has also been instructed to establish, by the end of the year, a special procedure for assessing the needs of families that have been affected by job losses. In addition, the Cabinet will have to ensure a reduction of poverty in the country in 2022, while at the same time reducing income inequality. The government will report by June 15 to the president on the work done towards this and, after that, quarterly.
https://www.sott.net/article/466646-Putin-outlines-priorities-to-restart-economy

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What Is The "Great Reset" And What Do The Globalists Actually Want?
I first heard the phrase "Great Reset" way back in 2014. Christine Lagarde, who was head of the IMF at the time, was suddenly becoming very vocal about global centralization. It was an agenda that was generally only whispered about in the dark corners of institutional white papers and the secretive meetings of banking elites, but now these people were becoming rather loud about it. Lagarde was doing a Q&A at the World Economic Forum and the notion of the "Reset" was very deliberately brought up; what the project entailed was vague, but the basic root of it was a dramatic shift away from the current economic, social and political models of the world into a globally centralized and integrated system - A "New World Order," if you will... It's important to remember that we had just jumped through the fires of an international credit collapse which started in 2008 and had continued to cause uncertainty in markets for years. The central banks had dumped tens of trillions of dollars...
https://www.sott.net/article/466647-What-Is-The-Great-Reset-And-What-Do-The-Globalists-Actually-Want

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What are the effects of America's narcissism epidemic?
There's a strong case to be made that since the end of World War II, Americans have grown increasingly narcissistic on average - more entitled, with an inflated sense of self-importance. Psychologists Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell are most responsible for collecting data and creating a narrative to support this claim. According to the duo, the rise began with the Baby Boomers, who grew up in an era of relative ease and plenty after their grandparents endured a Great Depression and their parents soldiered and sacrificed through World War II. By the time they were college-aged, Boomers eschewed the collectivist mindset of their elders in favor of individualism. The trend continued with Boomers' kids. As Dennis Shen wrote for the London School of Economics' Phelan United States Centre, "One study comparing teenagers found that while only 12% of those aged 14-16 in the early 1950s agreed with the statement "I am an important person", 77% of boys and more than 80% of girls of the...
https://www.sott.net/article/466648-What-are-the-effects-of-Americas-narcissism-epidemic

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Is your church getting paid by the government to convince the flock to get injected?
According to a report in the Epoch Times, the state of Pennsylvania is paying churches to convince their members to get vaccinated. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's administration wants pastors, rabbis and other faith leaders to turn their houses of worship into centers for "vaccination events," using federal grant money as an incentive to lure churches into a partnership with the government. But this is not just going on in Pennsylvania as reported by the Epoch Times. It's going on across the United States. The Epoch Times article reports that Pennsylvania's public health leaders want to "harness the power of community trust in statewide faith-based organizations" to convince people to get a COVID-19 gene-therapy injection. That is a quote from the mission statement of an organization called the Faith-based Organization Coalition. This organization, the Epoch Times reports, is being formed under the state's Department of Health and is expected to launch April 11. The state aims to...
https://www.sott.net/article/466649-Is-your-church-getting-paid-by-the-government-to-convince-the-flock-to-get-injected

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The left won't awaken for fear of losing the dream
The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country. - Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death The task of men...is not to desert historical struggles nor to serve the cruel and inhuman elements in those struggles. It is rather to remain what they are, to help man against what is oppressing him, to favor freedom against the fatalities that close in upon it....Man's greatness...lies in his decision to be greater than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself. - Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death Those familiar with the story of Noah's Ark will know the ancient patriarch, as described in the Bible's Book of Genesis, built a ship to ensure his family's lineage through a great global flood. The mass population of Noah's day would not survive the coming carnage...
https://www.sott.net/article/466650-The-left-wont-awaken-for-fear-of-losing-the-dream

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Bucha, Budapest and the multiplying problems of real war criminals
Fungal President Joe Biden openly declared Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" in a recent outburst while speaking at NATO. He's repeated this in the wake of the initial images coming out of the town of Bucha, Ukraine where an alleged massacre of civilians by Russian soldiers took place. Like many incidents similar to this in the past it is hard to take any of these claims of blame seriously. The US and UK have staged many a 'false flag' operation in the past at convenient times to gin up diplomatic outrage to advance a particular political agenda. That agenda is always to justify more war to deal with the villain du jour. Today it's Putin. In the past it's been Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic or Bashar al-Assad. The playbook is always the same. Shocking images and film of honest-to-god atrocities against civilians and an endless back and forth of accusations and suppression of real information about the event. Sadly, that becomes the focus not the fact that...
https://www.sott.net/article/466651-Bucha-Budapest-and-the-multiplying-problems-of-real-war-criminals